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enCNN's Blitzer Tags Perry Criticism of Gun-Free Zones as 'Eye-Raising' and 'Controversial'http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2015/07/27/cnns-blitzer-sees-perry-criticism-gun-free-zones-eye-raising-and
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On Monday&#39;s <em>Wolf</em> show on CNN, host Wolf Blitzer referred to GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry&#39;s criticism of gun-free zones as &quot;controversial&quot; and &quot;eye-raising&quot; before then giving gun control activist Mark Kelly an unchallenged forum to push for more gun laws.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:53:07 +0000Brad Wilmouth91522 at http://newsbusters.orgAP's Obsessed Weissert Whines About Perry's 'Pricy' and 'High-Powered' Legal Teamhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2015/07/27/aps-obsessed-weissert-whines-about-perrys-pricy-and-high-powered
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>2016 GOP presidential candidate and former Texas Governor Rick Perry is fighting a legal battle against an out-of-control Lone Star State county. That county&#39;s prosecutor has sued Perry, claiming that a) he committed an illegal act of &quot;coercion&quot; by threatening to veto legislation funding a &quot;public integrity&quot; office headed by Travis County&#39;s Rosemary Lehmberg, who was convicted of drunk driving in 2013 but refused to resign; and b) that he committed another illegal act by carrying out his veto promise. In effect, the County wants to criminalize Perry&#39;s exercise of his then-gubernatorial duties.</p>
<p>A Texas Court threw out the &quot;coercion&quot; contention on Friday. The Associated Press&#39;s Will Weissert was clearly quite displeased.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 04:32:06 +0000Tom Blumer91498 at http://newsbusters.orgChuck Todd: Is Trump ‘Reap What You Sow Issue’ for GOP? http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jeffrey-meyer/2015/07/19/chuck-todd-trump-reap-what-you-sow-issue-gop
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Building on comments he made on NBC&rsquo;s <em>Today</em>, <em>Meet the Press</em> moderator Chuck Todd wondered if Donald Trump&rsquo;s attack on John McCain were a &ldquo;reap what you sow issue here for the Republican Party?&rdquo;&nbsp;Todd brought up the &ldquo;reap what you sow&rdquo; argument during an interview with Rick Perry as he played up how the &ldquo;party embraced Donald Trump four years ago...during his whole birther craze at the time and you actively reached out for him. In hindsight was that a mistake for the party in general to embrace Trump four years ago?&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Jul 2015 16:47:14 +0000Jeffrey Meyer91236 at http://newsbusters.orgPerry Turns Planned Parenthood Fetal Body Parts Scandal Back on MSNBC's Halperinhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2015/07/17/perry-turns-planned-parenthood-fetal-body-parts-scandal-back-msnbcs
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As usual, much of the press has responded to scandalous behavior by leftist sacred cows by making the story about Republicans criticizing the actions instead of the scandal itself.</p>
<p>On the one hand, are we really supposed to believe that only pro-lifers are horrified by the evidence that Planned Parenthood, aka Planned Parthood, sells the body parts of aborted preborn babies? Gosh, I hope not. So it&#39;s more than fair to turn the question around on anyone who tries to isolate the objections in that way. Mark Halperin at MSNBC tried that on Rick Perry, asking him, &quot;Why are you so troubled by this video?&quot; &mdash; as if&nbsp;the former Texas governmor is the one with a problem.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 17 Jul 2015 04:09:49 +0000Tom Blumer91200 at http://newsbusters.orgAP's Will Weissert: Perry's Reference to God-Given Rights Is 'A Nod to the Tea Party'http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2015/06/05/aps-will-weissert-perrys-reference-god-given-rights-nod-tea-party
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On Thursday, the Associated Press&#39;s Will Weissert demonstrated that the ignorance of our nation&#39;s founding documents exhibited by Meredith Shiner at Yahoo Politics in March is not isolated to her.</p>
<p>Readers may recall that Shiner, reacting to Ted Cruz&#39;s presidential announcement speech, tweeted: <strong>&quot;Bizarre to talk about how rights are God-made and not man-made in your speech announcing a POTUS bid? When Constitution was man-made?&quot;</strong> In covering Rick Perry&#39;s presidential announcement, Weissert showed similar ignorance.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 06 Jun 2015 03:50:04 +0000Tom Blumer89460 at http://newsbusters.orgABC and NBC Move on from Perry’s 2016 Launch; Mock Him on Late Night Shows Insteadhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/curtis-houck/2015/06/05/abc-nbc-move-perrys-2016-launch-mock-him-late-night-shows-instead
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After providing minimal coverage of former Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry&rsquo;s 2016 announcement on Thursday night, ABC and NBC moved on from the story all together with zero mentions of Perry or the 2016 campaign on their Friday morning newscasts. Their late night comedy shows, however, spent plenty of time mocking Perry over his intelligence and eating of a corn dog back in 2011.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:00:36 +0000Curtis Houck89439 at http://newsbusters.orgABC, NBC Give Meager Coverage to Rick Perry’s 2016 Presidential Launchhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/curtis-houck/2015/06/04/abc-nbc-give-meager-coverage-rick-perrys-2016-presidential-launch
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry announced a second presidential campaign on Thursday afternoon, but viewers on the Thursday evening network newscasts may have missed the news altogether if not careful since the &ldquo;big three&rdquo; of ABC, CBS, and NBC gave Perry less than a minute and a half of combined airtime.</span></p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:52:40 +0000Curtis Houck89414 at http://newsbusters.orgAndrea Mitchell Trashes Perry Moments Before He Announces 2016 Bidhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2015/06/04/andrea-mitchell-trashes-perry-moments-he-announces-2016-bid
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During live coverage on Thursday just moments before former Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his 2016 presidential run, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell preemptively dismissed his candidacy: &ldquo;Why does Rick Perry think that the second time around will work given pretty much a disastrous campaign last time?&rdquo;</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:16:39 +0000Kyle Drennen89397 at http://newsbusters.orgPummeling Perry: The Media’s Worst Attacks on the Former Texas Governorhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2015/06/04/pummeling-perry-medias-worst-attacks-former-texas-governor
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>If his 2012 presidential run is any indicator, Rick Perry&rsquo;s jump into the 2016 presidential race will bring about a flurry of the liberal media&rsquo;s favorite pejoratives to hit Republicans with. Racist? Anti-science? Religious bigot? Gun nut? Heartless cutter of programs for the poor? You name it, the former Texas governor was called it by his haters in the leftist press.&nbsp;</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0000Geoffrey Dickens89348 at http://newsbusters.orgNPR Bewails Texas's 'Unqualified No' to Medicaid Expansionhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2015/05/29/npr-bewails-texass-unqualified-no-medicaid-expansion
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Friday&#39;s <em>Morning Edition</em> on NPR did its best to try to promote the liberal cause of expanding Medicaid in Texas. Wade Goodwyn lined up six soundbites from pro-expansion talking heads, versus only two from former Texas Governor Rick Perry, an opponent. Goodwyn played up that &quot;in hating the Affordable Care Act, the state is leaving on the table as much as a hundred billion dollars of federal money over ten years &ndash; money that would pay for health insurance for more than a million of its working poor.&quot;</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 29 May 2015 21:42:52 +0000Matthew Balan89154 at http://newsbusters.orgFox News, CNN Set Rules for First Two Republican Presidential Debateshttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/randy-hall/2015/05/21/fox-news-cnn-set-rules-first-two-republican-presidential-debates
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Even though the 2016 presidential election is more than 16 months away, two cable news outlets announced on Wednesday <strong>the criteria for the first two GOP debates</strong>.</p>
<p>The initial event, which will be hosted by the Fox News Channel and take place on Thursday, August 6, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, will be moderated by network anchors Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 21 May 2015 22:16:20 +0000Randy Hall88798 at http://newsbusters.orgDaily Kos: Conservatives Can’t Stop Whining That They’re ‘Oppressed and Persecuted’ By Liberalshttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-johnson/2015/01/31/daily-kos-conservatives-cant-stop-whining-theyre-oppressed-and
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Hunter contends that right-wingers feel that the left is &ldquo;out to get&rdquo; them, and that they &ldquo;consider&hellip;breaking the law itself to be a noble thing, when done in service to conservatism, which is why the various Fox News talking heads spoke of armed standoffs at the Bundy Ranch in approving tones and with references to the Founding Fathers.&rdquo;</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:42:19 +0000Tom Johnson82522 at http://newsbusters.orgMSNBC Reporter to Rick Perry: 'Are You Smart Enough' to Be President? http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2014/12/11/msnbc-reporter-rick-perry-are-you-smart-enough-be-president
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In a Tuesday interview with Texas governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate Rick Perry aired on MSNBC&#39;s Morning Joe on Thursday, political reporter Kasie Hunt questioned the Republican&#39;s intelligence: <strong>&quot;Are you smart enough to be President of the United States?&quot;</strong></p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:14:47 +0000Kyle Drennen80091 at http://newsbusters.orgThe Worst of Brian Williams: Marking His 10 Years as Anchor of NBC Nightly Newshttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2014/12/02/worst-brian-williams-marking-his-10-years-anchor-nbc-nightly-news
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Brian Williams marks ten years as anchor of</span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 21px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;NBC Nightly News&nbsp;</em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">on December 2 and it&rsquo;s been a decade full of absurdly softball interviews with Barack Obama and trashing of Republicans and Tea Partiers.&nbsp;</span></p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:05:00 +0000Geoffrey Dickens79504 at http://newsbusters.orgRick Perry Tells Chuck Todd He Will 'Not Be Invited' to Moderate Presidential Debatehttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2014/11/20/rick-perry-tells-chuck-todd-he-will-not-be-invited-moderate
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>During the Republican Governor&#39;s Association conference on Wednesday, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd spent more than half of an hour-long <a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?322847-2/republican-governors-association-day-1" target="_blank">panel discussion</a> grilling several GOP governors on illegal immigration and President Obama&#39;s upcoming executive order to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. The Republicans pushed back hard against the NBC host. &nbsp;<br />
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</div></div></div>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:18:00 +0000Kyle Drennen78996 at http://newsbusters.org